Thursday, November 22, 2012

St. Martin's Island is a pleasant place.

St. Martin's Island is a little island in the northeast division
of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the angle of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf
peninsula, and form the southernmost part of Bangladesh. It is the only coral
island in Bangladesh. It is about 8 km west of the northwest coast of Myanmar
at the mouth of the Naf River. The neighboring name of the island is
"Narical Gingira", also spelled "Narikel Janjina/Jinjera",
translated from Bangla, meaning 'Coconut Island'.

St. Martin's Island has become a fashionable traveler stain. at present, three transport
liners run daily trip to the island, counting Sea-Truck and Keary-Sindbad. tourist
can book their journey either from Chittagong or from Cox's Bazar. The close
coral reef of the island has an addition named 'Chera Dwip'.

In the history 5 years St. Martin's tourist inhabitants has greater than before
severely. whereas this position has proven to be lucrative for the islanders,
it is causing the ordinary loveliness of the isle to deteriorate. currently
there are many labors being put forth to preserve the several rare species of
turtles that case on the atoll, as well as the corals, a numeral of of which
are found only on Narikel Jinjera. piece of the coral reef are being removed in
order to be sold to tourists. Nesting turtles are sometimes taken for food, and
their hatchlings are often distracted by the moment lights along the seaside. type
of fish, a few just recently discovered, are being over-fished. Every year the
fishermen must project further out to ocean to get their catch. Most of them
use motorless boats.

At tall wave the desert island is about 3 miles just about, and tired in the core.
The island exist only since of its coral base, so subtraction of that coral
risks corrosion of the beaches. St. Martins has lost almost 25% of its coral
reef in the past 7 years.